Often I want to quickly write a small blogpost about something, usually involving bits of code.
But with Blogger, where I previously hosted my blog, adding code with proper styling was always so cumbersome. For a long time I wanted something different, something simpler. No more dependencies on hosted services or other peoples database models, since it’s always a hassle to move from service to another.

Jekyll

Jekyll is simple tool for writing documents in Markdown and generate static HTML pages based on Liquid templates.
The templating is very simple and using a Jekyll theme, it is very easy to quickly setup a site.